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"Nobody Like U" is a song by fictional boy band 4*Town, written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for Disney/Pixar's 2022 animated film Turning Red. It was released on February 25, 2022, two weeks before the March 11 film release. It also features on the film's soundtrack album.

"Nobody Like U" is one of three songs written by Billie and Finneas for the Disney/Pixar 2022 motion picture Turning Red, which takes place in 2002. In it, the main character Meilin Lee and her friends are trying to raise money to see the concert for 4*Town, a fictional boy band they all idolize, one of the many different aspects in the movie that reference late 1990s and early 2000s trends and culture, which included the idolization of boy bands. Of the band, members include Jesse, (voiced by O'Connell himself) a potter/ceramist, Robaire, (voiced by Jordan Fisher) a French-speaking Toronto native who is the "dreamy leader of the band," Tae Young, (Grayson Villanueva) an avid lover of animals who "dedicates his time off tour to rehabilitating wildlife," Aaron Z, (Josh Levi) a stoic, shy athlete and choreographer, and Aaron T, (Topher Ngo) a comedian and acrobat.^[1] Mei's friends sing the song to her before she goes home on the first day of school being shown in the movie, and on the same day, Mei and her mom are watching television when the song plays in a commercial for the band's upcoming North American tour. Later, Mei's friends also sing the song with her and embrace her to cheer her up when she is distressed about her red panda curse, which becomes a memory she frequently remembers to help prevent the red panda from being released when needed. The song also plays in tune with the chant in the last red moon ritual at the 4*Town concert to seal the red panda spirits of the family members.

The 2-minute-40-second song is in the key of C major with a tempo of 104 beats per minute. Sonically, it is a parody of 1990s and 2000s Max Martin-style pop music, precisely by boy bands like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.^[2][3] Robaire sings the intro, chorus, and outro, while he and Aaron Z. and have a rap verse in the middle and other members of the group sing background vocals.^[4]

The song debuted at number 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 on the week ending March 25, 2022, and number 50 on the Hot 100 the next week, becoming the first song from a Pixar film to reach the chart. Billboard reported on March 28 that the song's debut was driven largely by its 10 million official U.S. streams during its tracking week. "'Nobody Like U' also continues an impressive year for Walt Disney Records on Billboard's charts, after having sent all eight non-score songs from the Encanto soundtrack onto the Hot 100," they also wrote.^[5] The song also opened at No. 19 on the Streaming Songs chart, number 77 on the UK Singles Chart (peaking at 57), number 87 on the Canadian Hot 100 (peaking at 34), and number 24 on the NZ Hot Singles chart (peaking at number 18).

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wrote the music performed by 4*Town
(Image credit: Glenn Francis)

Roxy Simons of Newsweek wrote about the lyrical content, saying, "What seems like a simple track is anything but. While these are sweet lyrics that would make any young listener swoon, it also has a different meaning, namely because the lyrics can be flipped to represent the core friendship in the film between Mei, Miriam, Abby and Priya, and they also urge the listener not to cry because the members are there for them, something which also represents the way in which Mei's friends support her and help her not to be upset by her predicament."^[2] Leanne Butkovic of Thrillist wrote an extensive review, calling 4*Town "the platonic ideal of a 2002 boy band crafted in 2022, a swoon-worthy and diverse quintet of teen idols, each given a backstory devised with boy-band archetypes clearly front of mind," continuing with, "4*Town so perfectly recreates the boy-band fervor of the late '90s and early 2000s. The Grammy-winning siblings absolutely nailed it, down to the songs’ nostalgic production and accurately ridiculous lyrics."^[6]

To pitch the idea of having Billie and Finneas as producers, production created a scrapbook based on scenes of Mei and her fascination with 4*Town they had already developed for the film, at times putting cutouts of Eilish' and O'Connell's heads in place of the 4*Town members to show their appreciation for the pair. Both were already animation fans,^[7] and Eilish said that when they saw the concept from the material they got, she immediately got the idea they were aiming for, as she had been a fan of boy bands herself and recognized the bond Mei had with 4*Town.^[8] Eilish herself also said of the music in a behind-the-scenes featurette, "Writing these songs has literally been the most fun we've had writing. It's the really catchy melody and harmonies, claps and choreography,"^[6] and described "Nobody Like U" as "the song that viewers will hear the most when they watch Turning Red, the song that everyone knows from the group."^[2] “When we first started talking about Billie Eilish and Finneas – back before they’d won a billion Grammy awards – we could see then how they had their finger on the pulse,” Lindsey Collins, the movie's producer, said in an iHeartRadio interview, “We were big fans. We met with them and pitched this crazy idea of a boy band, asking if they’d be interested in writing and producing the songs. They were!”^[9]

Director Domee Shi told the Los Angeles Times that the movie was inspired with her own teenage obsession with boy bands, "It just felt right that Mei's ultimate goal in the movie was not to save the world but to go to her first concert with her best friends."^[10]

Tracks from 4*Town appeared in multiple languages, some of which were performed by boy bands such as Da-iCE for Japanese^[11] and W0LF(S) for Mandarin.^[12]

The band has a website of their own, and their fanbase was dubbed the "4-Townies"^[13]